Wyatt Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3797994 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wyatt Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wyatt |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9461-6823 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“They Take it Out on All of Us”
Legitimacy plays a crucial role in fostering order in prisons. When carceral staff are perceived as just, residents are more likely to follow institutional rules. Achieving procedural legitimacy is complicated by systemic barriers, including the use of collective punishment. Collective punishment is the sanctioning of a group because of the actions of one individual. Collective punishment can compromise rehabilitation and diminish procedural fair…
Why, How, and So What? Unpacking Coworker Relationships in Carceral Settings
Coworker relationships are a central part of carceral staff culture but are poorly understood and conceptualized. This article examines how and why these relationships exist and the outcomes of relationship quality. Through interviews with 183 staff working at eight state prisons and five county jails across eight U.S. states, we find that staff rely on coworkers for security, practical, and social support. Demographic, personality, and organizat…
Dysfunctional Beliefs About Sleep in Suicidal Adolescents
Statewide Prison Language Mandates
Person-centered language has increasingly been adopted in criminal legal contexts. Recognizing the harmful effects of stigmatizing language, some states have mandated correctional staff to use person-centered language instead of “prisoner” or “inmate.” However, little is known about the implementation of these mandates. To address this, the current study utilized interviews with 87 incarcerated people and 15 staff members in two prisons in a stat…
Factors influencing public attitudes toward criminal justice system funding
This study explores the relationship between demographic factors and attitudes toward criminal justice funding in the United States. Specifically, we explore responses from two years of data from the United States General Social Survey, both prior to and after the dramatic events of 2020, during which reformers called for a reduction in funding for law enforcement agencies as a response to high-profile incidents of police violence. We find that w…
Variations in Victimization
Existing research suggests that victimization risk is higher among urban residents. Violence against women is a notable exception in this trend. While the literature does indicate that rural women are at equal risk for violent victimization, it does not differentiate between types of non-urban spaces (exurbs, suburbs, small towns, dispersed rural). We use a five-category measure of rural-urban location articulated land use to disentangle victim–o…
Do developmental changes in impulsivity and sensation seeking uniquely predict violent victimization? A test of the dual systems model
The evolution of the tattoo in defiance of the immutable definition of deviance
Tattoos have made their way from prisons to fashion runways, but are they still perceived by law enforcement as marks of deviance? The purpose of this study is to examine law enforcement arrest patterns to determine the relationship between tattoos and offense charges. This study analyzes a random sample of arrestees from a large county in the Southern U.S. Using logistic regression models, the relationship between tattoos, tattoo location, numbe…
A Replication and an Honor-Based Extension of Hirschi's Reconceptualization of Self-Control Theory and Crime and Analogous Behaviors
In 2004 Hirschi reconceptualized self-control in an effort to clarify prior theoretical definitions and measurement. Recognizing this reconceptualization, the current study seeks to contribute to the literature by comparing various operationalizations of Hirschi's revised self-control. Multivariate results derived from an analysis of a large sample of college students reveal that several alternative measures of self-control (decisional self-contr…
A Replication and an Honor-Based Extension of Hirschi's Reconceptualization of Self-Control Theory and Crime and Analogous Behaviors
In 2004 Hirschi reconceptualized self-control in an effort to clarify prior theoretical definitions and measurement. Recognizing this reconceptualization, the current study seeks to contribute to the literature by comparing various operationalizations of Hirschi's revised self-control. Multivariate results derived from an analysis of a large sample of college students reveal that several alternative measures of self-control (decisional self-contr…
Do developmental changes in impulsivity and sensation seeking uniquely predict violent victimization? A test of the dual systems model
The evolution of the tattoo in defiance of the immutable definition of deviance
Tattoos have made their way from prisons to fashion runways, but are they still perceived by law enforcement as marks of deviance? The purpose of this study is to examine law enforcement arrest patterns to determine the relationship between tattoos and offense charges. This study analyzes a random sample of arrestees from a large county in the Southern U.S. Using logistic regression models, the relationship between tattoos, tattoo location, numbe…
Factors influencing public attitudes toward criminal justice system funding
This study explores the relationship between demographic factors and attitudes toward criminal justice funding in the United States. Specifically, we explore responses from two years of data from the United States General Social Survey, both prior to and after the dramatic events of 2020, during which reformers called for a reduction in funding for law enforcement agencies as a response to high-profile incidents of police violence. We find that w…
A Replication and an Honor-Based Extension of Hirschi's Reconceptualization of Self-Control Theory and Crime and Analogous Behaviors
In 2004 Hirschi reconceptualized self-control in an effort to clarify prior theoretical definitions and measurement. Recognizing this reconceptualization, the current study seeks to contribute to the literature by comparing various operationalizations of Hirschi's revised self-control. Multivariate results derived from an analysis of a large sample of college students reveal that several alternative measures of self-control (decisional self-contr…
The evolution of the tattoo in defiance of the immutable definition of deviance
Tattoos have made their way from prisons to fashion runways, but are they still perceived by law enforcement as marks of deviance? The purpose of this study is to examine law enforcement arrest patterns to determine the relationship between tattoos and offense charges. This study analyzes a random sample of arrestees from a large county in the Southern U.S. Using logistic regression models, the relationship between tattoos, tattoo location, numbe…
Do developmental changes in impulsivity and sensation seeking uniquely predict violent victimization? A test of the dual systems model
Variations in Victimization
Existing research suggests that victimization risk is higher among urban residents. Violence against women is a notable exception in this trend. While the literature does indicate that rural women are at equal risk for violent victimization, it does not differentiate between types of non-urban spaces (exurbs, suburbs, small towns, dispersed rural). We use a five-category measure of rural-urban location articulated land use to disentangle victim–o…
Statewide Prison Language Mandates
Person-centered language has increasingly been adopted in criminal legal contexts. Recognizing the harmful effects of stigmatizing language, some states have mandated correctional staff to use person-centered language instead of “prisoner” or “inmate.” However, little is known about the implementation of these mandates. To address this, the current study utilized interviews with 87 incarcerated people and 15 staff members in two prisons in a stat…
Factors influencing public attitudes toward criminal justice system funding
This study explores the relationship between demographic factors and attitudes toward criminal justice funding in the United States. Specifically, we explore responses from two years of data from the United States General Social Survey, both prior to and after the dramatic events of 2020, during which reformers called for a reduction in funding for law enforcement agencies as a response to high-profile incidents of police violence. We find that w…
Why, How, and So What? Unpacking Coworker Relationships in Carceral Settings
Coworker relationships are a central part of carceral staff culture but are poorly understood and conceptualized. This article examines how and why these relationships exist and the outcomes of relationship quality. Through interviews with 183 staff working at eight state prisons and five county jails across eight U.S. states, we find that staff rely on coworkers for security, practical, and social support. Demographic, personality, and organizat…
Dysfunctional Beliefs About Sleep in Suicidal Adolescents
“They Take it Out on All of Us”
Legitimacy plays a crucial role in fostering order in prisons. When carceral staff are perceived as just, residents are more likely to follow institutional rules. Achieving procedural legitimacy is complicated by systemic barriers, including the use of collective punishment. Collective punishment is the sanctioning of a group because of the actions of one individual. Collective punishment can compromise rehabilitation and diminish procedural fair…
Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (5 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Poison control (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)